JELLYFISH
Cnidaria     -      Invertebrate    -    Carnivore

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MOSAIC JELLYFISH

PURPLE STRIPED JELLYFISH

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COLLECTIVE NOUNS

1. A bloom of jellyfish
   
2. A fluther of jellyfish
3. A smack of jellyfish
   
4. A smuth of jellyfish
5. A stuck of jellyfish
6. A swarm of jellyfish

Jellyfish ...

Are found in every ocean and a few inhabit freshwater

• Have a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles
  
• Their bodies are made up of 95% water
  
• If they end up on a sunny beach, they will evaporate in a few hours and mostly disappear
• In order to move, the bell pulsates
  
• The tentacles are used to catch prey
  
• Many are brightly coloured and very beautiful
  
• The tentacles have tiny stinging cells to stun or paralyse their prey
  
• They have no brain, no blood, no bones, no head, no heart and no nervous system
  
• Eat plankton, fish, fish eggs, shrimp, crabs and sometime other jellyfish
  
• The Box Jellyfish (Sea Wasp) kills more people than any other marine creature
  
• Main predators are the sea turtle and humans - they are eaten in China and also used in Chinese medicine
  
• All jellyfish sting - even dead ones
  
• Some are as big as man whilst others are as small as a pinhead
  
• Live for about 1 year
  
• A large gathering of jellyfish can number 100,000 individuals
  
• The Giant Arctic Jellyfish tentacles ca reach 120 feet
• A species of jellyfish - Turritopsis Nutricula - is believed to 'biologically' live forever.  They are found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the waters of Japan  
• 90& of all jellyfish are smaller than a human thumbnail
• Jellyfish born on the Columbia space shuttle, suffered from vertigo when they returned to Earth

There are about 2,000 species of jellyfish

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BOX JELLYFISH

Turritopsis Nutricula - the immortal Jellyfish

PACIFIC OCEAN JELLYFISH

COMB JELLYFISH

PACIFIC COAST JELLYFISH

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